I have created a light fixture and appiled a white material.
I am showing decals in the same elevation so I am using Realistic View. If I switch to Consistent Colors then my lights show up white but then my decals disappear.
Can you tell me if there is a way to have my lights show white and show the decals at the same time?
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Hi.
The asset that controls consistent colors visuals is the graphics while the rendering, you use the appearance asset.
Check if you have set up the correct properties in both. You can also tell Revit to show the shaded view similar to the rendered material. Revit then generates a color that is as close as possible to the rendered material.
If this is not your problem then please provide images for us to better understand the problem and be able to help you.
Regards,
Best work around is to make sure to save your material assets that you want in a Rendered view. Then create a new material asset from the default material. Make that defualt material white, with a dim white glow and white tint. This will transform it in your realistic views to white and not a shade a of grey
I think we're talking about two different thing. You're trying to change a rendering or something that is realistically portraying what something looks like vs us trying to create an image to give to a client so they see the color and material pallette displayed on a 3D view. What is needed is a way that Revit can have view type that shows materials and finishes, but produces them using a color vs a rendered material
While in renderings there are many ways, including lighting effects, to make this happen. When we're trying to produce process, or other intermidate views, colors need to be represented as they are selected.
I know its a little backwards seeing as everyone talks about photorealism. Clients though aren't always that intellegent about color and lighting. Simple colored views with material pallettes shown is often the best way to get a client on board with your ideas.
Hopefully this gives a little definition to the problems we are trying to solve
Have there been any improvements in recent releases? I too am having this same issue. I am about to visit the job site with the designer and he wanted color elevations so we can review the elevations one final time. The project has a white, light gray, and dark gray. Unfortunately the white looks like the light gray so it's not very helpful.
Seven years on, this is still not fixed. I can't make white objects actually look white in 3D. Every other modeling program I work with can do this simple thing, but not Revit.